Anne Imhof

Yeah, I try that, but that's not happening.

Yeah.

More or less, like I really have to rely on my intuition for finding things again that I'm actually looking for because they are there.

They are there in my head.

Like I almost like save them and know that I never find them again.

through that action or through drawing something down or writing it down.

I have tons of sketchbooks and I sometimes think like I will never open that page again, even though I said like this is how this thing should look like or this is like interesting to me or this question or like sometimes notes that almost are like journaling, but I would never like really journal.

It is almost like kind of journaling as a concentration thing.

exercise, but it never is to find something again.

And it sometimes puts me in a big panic.

It's also before performance pieces, I do my work three years on it and mostly I work alone on it.

And then I have to bring that to people that are collaborators in the first place.

And then we work on it a

systems of putting it down are so unproven to me that it sounds really messy.

And in a way, it's not as soon as I'm trusting myself that the images are all there.

And I can be in that state, but it is always a moment of...

suffering to enter a blank space or enter a rehearsal studio where people are waiting for me.

And I know it is on me to speak about those images or bring them or like movements or patterns or trajectories.

It's like really interesting.

And then when I'm in it, it's like when it's working, I live for this.